Jamal Pogues disagrees with the judges in his newest struggle, to place it gently.
Following a slender break up resolution loss to Hamdy Abdelwahab—during which one choose scored the bout 30-27 in Pogues’ favor—at UFC Saudi Arabia on Saturday, Pogues took to social media to air his frustrations in regards to the verdict.
“We all know we acquired robbed,” Pogues mentioned through Instagram Tales. “There’s not likely a lot to say if you struggle in individuals’s f*cking nation and shit, they’re going to select the hometown man [Editor note: Abdelwahab is from Egypt, not Saudi Arabia, and fights out of New York]. I do know I received two and three. Apart from that, I actually don’t know what’s subsequent. We’ll see what the UFC do, in the event that they re-sign me or not. If not, I recognize every part about this journey. F*ck, simply return house, heal up, and simply hang around with my household. We’ll see the place God takes me subsequent.”
Pogues definitely has a case for a win. In keeping with UFC Stats, he scored extra important strikes (in no way a transparent indicator of victory) in all three rounds, together with a 22-11 benefit in Spherical 1 and a 22-12 benefit in Spherical 2. On MMA Decisions, media scores had been break up, with 5 having it 29-28 Abdelwahab, six having it 29-28 Pogues, and two having it 30-27 Pogues.
Even the 2 judges that scored the struggle for Abdelwahab weren’t in settlement, with Ben Cartlidge giving Abdelwahab the second and third, and Sal D’Amato giving him the primary and second.
Nonetheless, Pogues is resolute that he was robbed of a win and he plans to make a proper criticism to the fee.
“I do know I received the f*cking struggle,” Pogues mentioned. “We’re about to get this shit overturned. I’m going to the fee, f*ck that shit. All people on the earth noticed me win that f*cking struggle. I don’t know what to say. I don’t give a f*ck what no person say. F*ck Hamdy and anyone else that went towards me as a result of I do know I received that f*cking struggle.”
Pogues fell to 2-2 within the UFC with the loss, and 11-5 as a professional.